Ulead PhotoImpact 12

Professional Image Editing Made Easy

Whats New

Ulead PhotoImpact 12 is a complete image-editing suite for managing, editing and sharing all your digital images. Handy ExpressFix mode makes common photo enhancements fast and easy. Choose from a full range of effects and powerful yet easy-to-use tools for outstanding results. Create and share photo projects, calendars, prints or slideshows, on disc, Web or email.
NEW! Easy and Fast ExpressFix Mode
Quickly enhance your photos
ExpressFix mode is perfect for beginners and great for everyday photo tasks. Automated enhancements and easy-to-understand options get you started fast.
Enhanced Friendlier Interface
New, big buttons allow you to quickly switch between ExpressFix, Full Edit, Video & DVD and Web modes. Another button lets you start a new or open an existing Photo Project, Calendar, Web Album, or Web Slideshow. Even open the Mobile Image wizard, to output your image to a mobile device, with one click. Jump directly to other programs such as Photo Explorer, COOL 360 and GIF Animator without closing the main program.

NEW! Auto SmartCurves

A single button provides you with high-quality oneclick tonal correction tailored for your camera.

NEW! Auto Reduce Noise

Automatically clean up digital artifacts in photos shot in low light conditions or at high ISO settings.
Enhanced Digital Camera Wizard
A simplified dialog box provides a more streamlined workflow for transferring your photos from your camera to your computer.

Enhanced Workspace

Unique panel with one-click fixes and enhancements, and Before, After and Dual Views make the new ExpressFix Mode suitable for beginners and advanced users alike.
Attractive Photo Projects
NEW! Photo Project Templates
Share your photos in greeting cards and CD & DVD labels that capture the excitement of any occasion. Choose from 70 customizable templates. The 3-step wizard makes it simple and fast!
Streamlined Workflow Pro Results

Enhanced Welcome Screen

The Welcome Screen saves you time. Go straight to the appropriate tool, mode or program that you want to use.
NEW! SmartGuide How-to Help
Learn how to edit while you edit! SmartGuide provides step-by-step directions on-screen that teach you how to accomplish many basic and advanced photo-editing, Webpage, video and DVD menu creation tasks. Links take you directly to the tools you need.

Advanced Photo Tools

Enhanced Reduce Noise
More powerful and much faster, the enhanced Reduce Noise feature uses anisotropic diffusion, providing cleaner, sharper images than ever before. Sliders let you precisely adjust the level of noise reduction you desire.
NEW! Auto White Balance Control
Make the colors in your photos look natural. The enhanced white balance feature uses advanced perceptual technology to correct colors the way your eyes see. Auto presets allow for quick color adjustments. Detailed settings let you fine-tune the colors of your photos, precisely the way you like them.

Enhanced RAW file support
Brighter previews, improved performance and a greater number of supported camera models make working with your RAW images better than ever.
Enhanced 16-bit image support
Take advantage of PhotoImpacts selection tools while editing high color depth images. Create and store full 16-bit color depth objects in the UFO file format.
Enhanced High Dynamic Range (HDR)
Import, export and save your particular camera models camera curves for better-looking HDR images.

Graphics Tools

NEW! Web and Blog Page Templates
These ready-to-use and customizable templates let you design your own Web and blog pages easily and quickly.
Video, DVD & Web Tools
Enhanced Component Designer
Create DVD menu buttons and video and Web objects, such as lower-third graphics, rollover buttons and banners in three steps.

Enhanced Path Tool

Choose between large and small node sizes for greater flexibility in working with paths. Save time by batch converting multiple path objects to images.

DVD Menu Maker Plug-in*

Make custom DVD menus for use in Ulead DVD MovieFactory 5 and Ulead VideoStudio 10. Create various different styles, including Thumbnail, Text and One-Scene menus. Even create high-definition menus! DVD Menu Maker gives you complete control over all of the menu elements. *Available for download late 2006

Enhanced Z-Merge

Maintain the spatial relationships between Z-Merged objects while resizing.

Enhanced Text Tool

Resize text directly on-screen without leaving the Text Tool.
Copyright 2006 Ulead Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Ulead, the Ulead logo PhotoImpact, COOL 360, ExpressFix, GIF Animator, DVD MovieFactory and VideoStudio are trademarks or registered trademarks of Ulead Systems, Inc. Other product names used herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and are use for identification purposes only. www.ulead.com | www.ulead.co.uk | www.ulead.de | www.ulead.fr | www.ulead.co.jp | www.ulead.com.cn | www.ulead.com.tw | www.ulead.com.hk

Ulead PhotoImpact 12

Professional Image Editing Made Easy

Features and Benefits

Ulead PhotoImpact 12 is a complete image-editing suite for managing, editing and sharing all your digital images. Handy ExpressFix mode makes common photo enhancements fast and easy. Choose from a full range of effects and powerful yet easy-to-use tools for outstanding results. Create and share photo projects, calendars, prints or slideshows, on disc, Web or email.
Tools for Everyday Photo Tasks

NEW! ExpressFix Mode

Perfect for beginners and great for everyday photo tasks. Automated enhancements and easy-to-understand options get you started fast.

Easy to Learn and Use

Enhanced Welcome Screen
The Welcome Screen saves you time. Go straight to the appropriate tool, mode or program that you want to use. Easily return to the Welcome Screen to quickly change modes.
Enhanced Digital Camera Wizard
A simplified dialog box provides a more streamlined workflow for transferring your photos from your camera to your computer.
NEW! SmartGuide How-to Help
Learn how to edit while you edit! SmartGuide provides step-by-step directions on-screen that teach you how to accomplish many basic and advanced photo-editing, Webpage, video and DVD menu creation tasks. Links take you directly to the tools you need.

Auto-process Commands

Make standard photo adjustments automatically with oneclick Levels, Brightness & Saturation, Color, Focus, Straighten, Crop, Enhance and Contrast tools. The new Auto Reduce Noise feature automatically cleans up digital artifacts in photos shot in low light conditions or at high ISO settings.
Enhanced Friendlier Interface
New, big buttons allow you to quickly switch between ExpressFix, Full Edit, Video & DVD and Web modes. Another button lets you start a new or open an existing Photo Project, Calendar, Web Album, Web Slideshow or open the Mobile Image wizard. Jump directly to other programs such as Photo Explorer, COOL 360 and GIF Animator without closing the main program.

Remove Red Eye

Easily remove red eye from people, and yellow or green eyes from animals, in your pictures.
UNIQUE! Scanned Image Fix
Straighten, crop, improve focus, brightness & color balance, fix red eye and add a frame with shadow, for easy post processing of scanned images.

UNIQUE! EasyPalette

Visually choose from a thumbnail library of 800 objects and 2,500 customizable effects. Just drag-and-drop effects onto any image, selected area or object for the most intuitive way to apply effects. Even save macros and images to the EasyPalette.

Photo Frames

Choose from over 260 frames with the option of adding text, image logos and EXIF data.

Dockable panels

Improve your workflow by locking frequently used panels and toolbars together for complete control over your workspace. Now you can turn docking on/off for individual panels.

E-mail

Optimize images and export them as attachments to your e-mail application for seamless sharing.

Save for Mobile

Easily save files to display on your mobile phone, PDA, or other portable device.
Enhanced Split View FX Previewing
The enhanced effects dialog box allows for fast previewing and increased productivity. The screen can be resized freely, even up to full screen. You have the option for an adjustable one-screen Split View, or two-screen Dual View previewing.

Print Multiple Photos & Print Posters
Choose from an array of creative and paper-saving output options.
Web Albums & Slideshows
Upload photos to the Web or burn a slideshow to disc, and share with your family and friends.
Lightning-fast Browse Manager
Instantly see image thumbnails, so you can choose photos and get working fast.

Quick Command Panel

Save time by recording macros to perform a set of tasks on any group of images.
Correct Chromatic Aberration
Clean up chromatic aberration and purple fringing found in images taken with some of todays high-resolution, small-sized sensors.

Batch Convert

Increase your productivity by converting the file format, data type and resolution of multiple images with just one click.
Photo Correction Commands
For more precise image adjustment: Curves, Levels, Color Balance, Color Cast, Color Replacement, Brightness and Contrast, and Focus Enhance Lighting improves exposure by simulating fill flash or by brightening backgrounds. Lens Distortion corrects spherical and trapezoidal distortions typical of wide-angle lenses. Sharpen focuses blurry images by enhancing the contrast between bordering pixels while limiting speckling with built-in noise reduction feature. Gaussian Blur lets you apply easy-to-use blur effects with simple, precise controls.

UFO Preview

View PhotoImpact vector graphics files directly in Windows Explorer so youll know exactly which files you want to open.

High-End Image Editing

NEW! Auto White Balance Control
Make the colors in your photos look natural. The enhanced white balance feature uses advanced perceptual technology to correct colors the way your eyes see. Auto presets allow for quick color adjustments. Detailed settings let you fine-tune the colors of your photos, precisely the way you like them.

Complete Creative Suite

NEW! Photo Project Templates
Share your photos in greeting cards and CD & DVD labels that capture the excitement of any occasion. Choose from 70 customizable templates. The 3-step wizard makes it simple and fast!

Enhanced Reduce Noise

More powerful and much faster, the enhanced Reduce Noise feature uses anisotropic diffusion, providing cleaner, sharper images than ever before. Sliders let you precisely adjust the level of noise reduction you desire.
UNIQUE! Object Extraction Wizard
Professionally extract objects in minutes! Transport your family to exotic places theyve never been. Or combine dreams with reality. Compose a scene of a mouse chasing a cat. Just paint around the edge of your subject, click on the background, extract and refine. Four steps and youre done. Theres even an undo option.

Enhanced RAW file support
Brighter previews, improved performance and a greater number of supported camera models make working with your RAW images better than ever.
Enhanced 16-bit image support
Take advantage of PhotoImpacts selection tools while editing high color depth images. Create and store full 16bit color depth objects in the UFO file format.

Border Anti-Aliasing

Generate an anti-aliased border so image edges wont appear pixelated.
Enhanced High Dynamic Range (HDR)
Combine bracketed exposures of the same scene to create stunning, professional images that capture color and detail in both shadows and highlights. Delete elements of the scene that change between shots. Enhanced with preset curves for more camera models.
Intuitive Selection tools
Make selections based on what you can see without selecting unwanted hidden elements.

Smart Lasso

A selection tool that automatically finds an objects best edges. Works well with straight-edged objects set against high-contrast backgrounds.

UNIQUE! SmartCurves

SmartCurves is automatic image adjustment that compensates for camera response curve anomalies. You get high-quality tonal correction tailored for your camera, for spot-on results.

Soft Edge on objects

Add soft feathery edges for striking montages and smooth alpha-channel video overlays.
UNIQUE! SmartRemove Scene Compositor
Selectively paint out moving elements from multiple shots of the same scene, so you can compose an image with just the elements you want. Show your subject in a series of poses or create a crowd where there was none.
UNIQUE! Match Background Color
Seamlessly blend composited objects into any background for professional-quality montages.
UNIQUE! Object-based Approach
Unlike layer-based programs, PhotoImpacts objects allow for more intuitive image compositing.

Large file performance

Robust support for images taken using digital cameras with resolutions of 8 Megapixels or higher.

Transform Tool

Correct or modify images and objects with robust transform features including Resize, Distort, Add Perspective and Rotate in Virtual 3D.

Add Vignette

Create soft-edge oval frames that make your portraits stand out. With this spotlight effect, you can draw viewers eyes to your subject and reduce distracting background elements.

Painting tools

Paint using 12 different natural media tools such as Crayon, Charcoal, and Pencil. Includes support for pressuresensitive graphics tablets.

Color Cast

Set the right mood. Easily warm up or cool down photos by clicking on any image color and adjusting the hue and saturation using the color wheel.
Powerful Retouching tools
Perfect your photos using 14 different retouching tools, including Dodge, Burn, Remove Scratch and many others.

Touch-up Tool

Easily remove undesirable image details, such as skin blemishes, by subtly duplicating another area of the same image.

Photographic Filters

Full-screen dialog boxes for easier previewing. Achieve professional results that normally require specialized effect filters, including: - Diffraction - Multi-vision - Gradient - Diffuse Glow - Sunlight - Motion Blur - Moon - Star - Duotone - Spot - Film Grain

Color picker

Set the default color picker for more precise creative control.

Stamp Tool

Add custom-designed stamps for fun birthday and holiday cards.

Artistic Effects

Creative effects for montages and other compositions: - Engraving - Cartoon - Artistic Screening - Pen and Ink - Stippling - Contour Drawing - Mosaic Tiles - Impressionist
Web, DVD and Video Graphics
Enhanced Component Designer
Design tailor-made objects with hundreds of preconfigured toolbars, buttons and bars. Now you can also create DVD menu buttons and Web and video objects, such as lowerthird graphics, rollover buttons and banners, all in three easy steps.

Painting Effects

Achieve fantastic results with: - Decoupage - Oil Paint - Weave - Etching - Finger Paint - Pattern Fill - Halftone - Smear - Brick Tiles

DVD Menu Maker Plug-in*

Make custom DVD menus for use in Ulead DVD MovieFactory 5 and Ulead VideoStudio 10. Create various different styles, including Thumbnail, Text and OneScene menus. Even create high-definition menus! DVD Menu Maker gives you complete control over all of the menu elements.

Layer Mask

Explore amazing compositing control with nondestructive layer masks. Customize a masks transparency using painting & gradient tools and enjoy the flexibility of being able to rotate, resize, paint in or paint out masks just like objects. Link and unlink an object to a selection mask so that you can change the objects position and adjust the layer masks size and properties. Great for montages!

DVD Menu library

The EasyPalette comes with DVD backgrounds, buttons, and frames - great for use with any DVD-authoring application!

Enhanced Text Tool

Wrap, bend, and distort 2D & 3D text with freehand paths and even add a border. Now resize text directly on-screen without leaving the Text Tool.
NEW! Web and Blog Page Templates
These ready-to-use and customizable templates let you design your own Web and blog pages easily and quickly.

Enhanced Path Tool

Easily design 2D & 3D objects including editable polygon shapes, lines and text. You can also define the number of sides to create customized shapes. Now you can choose between large and small node sizes for greater flexibility in working with paths. Save time by batch converting multiple path objects to images.

Image Map Tool

Easily create linked hotspots on images for Web sites that are more visually intuitive and user friendly.
UNIQUE! JavaScript Effects
Take advantage of interactive Web page components like cascading menus, rollovers, and scrolling text all without typing a line of code.

Enhanced Z-Merge

PhotoImpact is object-based rather than layer-based, allowing objects to interact for amazing 3D image depth control. Now maintain the spatial relationships between ZMerged objects while resizing.
Still and Animated Effects
Explore your creative side with galleries that include hundreds of Lighting, Particle, Material and Texture effects.

Multiple Node Editing

Select several nodes from a path object and adjust them simultaneously for exciting creative possibilities.

Optimize Images

Compress image files into smaller-sized, Web-friendly formats for faster e-mail and Web uploads.

Save Images for Video

Generate GIF & PNG images with transparent alphachannel layers for export as video overlays.

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Specifications

System Requirements

Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP Service Pack 2 Home Edition / Professional, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Intel Pentium III compatible or above CD-ROM Drive 256 MB RAM 750 MB available hard drive space for program and content files. True Color or Hi-Color display adapter with 1024x768 resolutions or higher. 001, BAY, BMP, CLP, CRW, CR2, CUR, DCR, DCS, DCX, DNG, EPS, FAX, FPX, GIF, ICO, IFF, IMG, JP2, JPC, JPG, MAC, MRW, MSP, NEF, ORF, PBM, PCD, PCT, PCX, PEF, PGM, PIC, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, PXR, RAF, RAS, RAW, SCI, SCT, SHG, SRF, SVG (output), TGA, TIF, UFO, UFP, WBMP, WMF, X3F Digital cameras, USB card readers, TWAIN/WIA compliant scanners Pressure-sensitive graphics tablets

Bonus Software

Photo Explorer 8.6 with RAW support
An efficient management tool to transfer, browse, modify and distribute your digital media. Create fun calendars, catalogue your photo discs, burn slideshow videos & discs and do so much more.

PhotoImpact Album 12 with RAW support
Catalogue photos with a database and back up photo albums by burning directly to disc. Easily organize and archive your entire photo collection.

Ulead COOL 360

Turns your series of images into 360-degree panoramas.

File Format Support

Ulead GIF Animator 5.05
Enjoy multiple object composition and round-trip editing. *Available for download late 2006

Digital Device Support

Copyright 2006 Ulead Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Ulead, the Ulead logo PhotoImpact, COOL 360, ExpressFix, GIF Animator, DVD MovieFactory, VideoStudio and EasyPalette are trademarks or registered trademarks of Ulead Systems, Inc. Other product names used herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and are used for identification purposes only. www.ulead.com | www.ulead.co.uk | www.ulead.de | www.ulead.fr | www.ulead.co.jp | www.ulead.com.cn | www.ulead.com.tw | www.ulead.com.hk